Alexander Green. Scarlet sails (№ 17132)

No other profession except this, could so successfully fuse into a single whole all treasures of life while preserving inviolable the most delicate design of each separate joy. The danger, the risk, the power of nature, the light of a distant country, wonderful unknown, lighted by love, blooming date, and parting; the fascinating boiling meetings, persons, events; the immense variety of life, whereas high up in the sky the southern Cross, the bear, and all the continents in keen eyes, though your cabin is full pokidaya homeland, with its books, pictures, letters and dried flowers entwined by a silky lock of hair in a suede amulet on a solid chest.